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- [ A Day For Tired People ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "A DAY FOR TIRED PEOPLE"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- If nothing matters, then nothing matters.
- If nothing matters, then it does not matter that nothing matters.
- If it does not matter that nothing matters, then something matters.
- If something matters, then something matters.
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- They sat in Jim's old apartment, Jim and Charles, drinking whiskey,
- smoking cigarettes and talking about things that people usually talk about
- when they are having a terrible hangover. They had finished the sport and
- the political section of their topics which as usual led them to the
- meaning of life. It was sunday and a day for tired people. A day when
- people who are trying to cure a terrible hangover talks about absolutely
- nothing of value.
- Jim took a sip of his whiskey directly out of the bottle.
- - I guess there is nothing more in life than eating, drinking and failure
- nowadays, he said and froze the moment after when he realized that he knew
- what Charles was about to say. Jim knew and he hated it. As soon as he
- mentioned something about life, Charles would begin talking about
- determinism.
- - As long as we cannot come up with any arguments why life wouldn't be
- causal and mechanical, I think we just have to accept other thoughts about
- our present situation.
- - I knew you were going to say something like that!
- Charles bent forward and tried to reach the whiskey bottle. But Jim was
- faster and took it away.
- - Listen, Jim said annoyed, we have had this discussion ten times earlier
- so why do you bring it up once again?
- - Give me the bottle. Then let us talk about it for the eleventh time.
- The strong liquid ran down their throats and they prepared for another
- verbal war in Jim's old apartment.
- Charles spoke.
- - The world is mechanical and deterministic. Whatever you do, you are
- forced to it. Spinoza was right when he said that the world is one
- substance and not several, but he was wrong when he claimed that this
- substance was "god". The world is one substance, from the atomic view.
- If I drink whiskey, I never do it out of free will. The act of grabbing
- the bottle, take it to my mouth and swallow the liquid is predictable - if
- we manage to analyze the causal mechanism. Look at it this way; I take the
- bottle because I am thirsty. Why did I get thirsty? Because I ate food.
- Why did I ate food? Because I was hungry. Why did I choose that special
- dinner to eat? Because I have heard that it is tasty. Do you understand?
- We never do anything out of completely free will. We are only bricks in an
- enormous causal play. Of course, we believe that we do it out of free
- will, but in reality we do not.
- Jim spoke.
- - You may be right. But your thoughts require more facts. Why, for
- example, would everything be mechanical and causal? Is there any special
- reason? No, at this moment you fail. You cannot present any good reason
- why it should be like this. Everything has an reason, and it is this
- reason we must find. If the reason is unavailable, we would never bother
- to look for it. But we still try, and that makes a causal world wrong. If
- we can predict acts, we can change acts. When we change acts, we change
- your predictable world. Hence: The world cannot be completely causal.
- Charles spoke.
- - There may be a reason which we will never be aware of. Think of the
- world as a part of a computer game. In this game, we are pre-programmed to
- do certain acts without the knowledge of why. Our acts are logical to the
- situation, therefor we do not question them. They fit so good into our
- world, so we believe that we do them with free will.
- Jim spoke.
- - That sounds better. But this sounds like luxury topics. If we never
- can understand or see that we are in a game, why talk about it? The only
- result we will get to is that everything is without meaning. If we are
- only pixels in a game, why should we bother to educate us, work and try to
- find a meaning in our lives? Your cold scientific view does nothing good
- to the human race. It only creates frustration and confusion.
- Charles spoke.
- - That does not matter. Let me try to explain through an fictitious
- example. Imagine that this world is not externally created. The... let
- us call him the "global programmer" works from within our world. He sits
- somewhere on our planet, with a computer and creates the world around him.
- He can see everything, he can do everything. He is God. In the real
- world, he cannot do much. But from his computer he can change things. He
- is not "someone up there", he is here and we can find him. He only creates
- people and material, but it is up to his creations to do whatever they
- want. Then our world would not be causal and predictable in one sense, but
- in another way it would be.
- Jim spoke.
- - I do not follow you. How can the world be causal and predictable and
- at the same moment not?
- Charles spoke.
- - Well, the "global programmer" does not himself create the beginning and
- the end. He just creates material, substance. He does not create a
- predictable substance, but the substance in itself is predictable, if we
- can analyze its causal mechanism.
- Jim spoke.
- - Sounds weird.
- A short moment of silence told them that the discussion was over. The
- afternoon was getting late.
- Charles broke the silence.
- - My clock screams that the bar has opened downtown. Why not get there
- and see if we find our "global programmer"?
- Jim chuckled.
- - Yeah. Let's go and make the town stand on its head!
- Charles put down the bottle and they both went to the front door. But no
- one ever opened it and stepped out.
- The global programmer took a deep breath of relief.
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